All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • North Korea arrests US student, cites ‘hostile act’

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday announced the arrest of a university student from Ohio for what it called a “hostile act” orchestrated by the American government to undermine the authoritarian nation. In language...

    • Posted January 22, 2016
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  • The North's leader made the H-bomb claims last week, saying the country has become a "powerful nuclear weapons state." (Yonhap)
    N. Korea demands peace treaty for stopping nuke tests

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea....

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • North Korea Chic? (Korea Times file)
    N. Korea’s Kim sings, plays guitar to workers: report

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sang to workers as he played the guitar, the country’s state media reported Friday, apparently trying to build a friendly image for the leader. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • Yoon Soon-ku, right, director-general at the Ministry of National Defense's international policy division, shakes hands with Chinese defense ministry's Foreign Affairs Office Director Rear-Adm. Guan Youfei during working-level defense talks between the two countries in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Friday. (Yonhap)
    S Korea, China split over level of sanctions on N. Korea

    SEOUL/BEIJING (Yonhap) — China is opposed to a set of tougher sanctions on North Korea proposed by South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, a diplomatic source said Friday after key direct consultations between Seoul and Beijing. Hwang...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • Buses carrying nuclear scientists, military officials and construction workers line a street in Pyongyang while residents cheer after North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. Up to 100,000 citizens were mobilized for the event. North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper published the photograph on Thursday. (Yonhap)
    Korea, US intelligence capabilities in question

    NK nuke test reveals poor monitoring by Seoul, Washington By Yi Whan-woo The intelligence gathering capabilities of South Korea and the United States have been called into question after President Park Geun-hye insisted Wednesday that neither Seoul...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • N. Korea slams World Economic Forum for revoking invitation

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday criticized organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos for revoking an invitation to its delegation in the wake of a nuclear test. The WEF sent an invitation...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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    N. Korea’s fanfare for H-bomb developers

    (PHOTO NEWS) —  Photos published by North Korea’s official daily Rodong Sinmun on Jan. 14, 2016, accompanied reports that the nation and the people provided devoted hospitality to those who worked on the claimed successful test of...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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